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Taking the call in Gaza before Israel takes out the building

A Palestinian woman carrying her son flees her home during Israeli air and artillery strikes, as she walks near the site of a tower building destroyed in earlier strikes in Gaza City on May 14, 2021. [Reuters]

The building watchman spoke on his mobile intently, pacing up and down a quiet street in Gaza. In video footage caught by an onlooker, Jamal Nasman showed no panic. Yet what he was hearing was deadly serious.

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